| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.214 | A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle | A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.32 | Did steer humanity. But you gods will give us | Did steere humanity: but you Gods will giue vs |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.2 | Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye |
Might'st thou perceiue austeerely in his eie, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.46 | Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. | Fortune brings in some Boats, that are not steer'd. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.103 | Like youthful steers unyoked they take their courses | Like youthfull Steeres, vnyoak'd, they tooke their course |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.98 | And you yourself shall steer the happy helm. | And you your selfe shall steere the happy Helme. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.200 | The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer | The wild Sea of my Conscience, I did steere |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.120 | Steer, angry Nemesis, the happy helm, | Stir angry Nemesis the happie helme, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.155 | My unsoiled name, th' austereness of my life, | My vnsoild name, th' austeerenesse of my life, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.34 | Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes, | Steering with due course toward the Ile of Rhodes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.19 | So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on – | So with his sterage, shall your thoughts grone |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.112 | But He that hath the steerage of my course | But he that hath the stirrage of my course, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.124 | And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf | And yet the Steere, the Heycfer, and the Calfe, |